Now it's my little girl's turn...

You get two scrapbook pages today since I know I won't be posting tomorrow. I will be at the monthly meeting that my second level upline is hosting. It's one of the great perks of being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator - there are a ton of ways to get together with fellow demonstrators and share ideas. Lisa hosts a shoebox swap: some of the folks coming to the meeting volunteer to bring a project. If you are bringing a project (like I am tomorrow night) you provide all the supplies such as ink pads, stamps, card stock (already cut to the correct dimensions) and put them all in some sort of small box. Then you will have one card that is your example card that everyone can look at to see how to put the card together. At the start, we all show our project (card or 3-d project) and describe any things that might be a little tricky. Then we pass the shoeboxes around the table. By the end of the night, you have 8 or so projects to show as examples, use as ideas for future layouts, etc. It's an awesome time to talk and share and just have fun with fellow demonstrators!



Ok... so on to tonight's scrapbook layout. I did this double layout as a project for the Scrap all Day vendor fair I did in late February and my March club meeting. As with my son's birthday page, everyone made the two 6x6 layouts and I showed the way those could either be 8-1/2x11 or 12x12 pages. I admit that I used a ton of supplies for these pages, so I don't know if I'll be able to correctly identify all of them here. I'm going to try - oh, and yes, I did use the Sale-a-Bration paper and ribbon here again (sorry)...

Supplies:
It's a Loop Thing, Big Deal Numbers, and Heard from the Heart stamp sets
Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Barely Banana, Pumpkin Pie, and Chocolate Chip card stock (some of it is textured - Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette)
Delicate Dots Designer Series Paper (SAB '09 - no longer available)
Certainly Celery Poly-Twill Ribbon (SAB '09 - no longer available)
Pink Pirouette 1-1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon
Rose Red 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon
Bashful Blue 1" Double-Stitched Ribbon
Scallop Border Punch
5-Petal Flower Punch
Summer Sun Corduroy Buttons
Flower Fusion
Filigree Brads
Rich Regals Brads
Gold Brads
Metallic Eyelets
Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
Stampin' Up! Top Note bigz die
Stampin' Up! Join in the Cheer sizzlits decorative strip die
Note: I did use a different letter decorative strip die than is in our catalog - I think it was called Broadway. It is still a Sizzix die - but it is also easy to use the Bollboard die offered in the catalog.

My little boy's birthday scrapbook page

If you look down (or remember) my previous post about Sale-a-Bration, you might recognize the smaller 6x6 portion of this scrapbook page. I created this page for my February club meeting. In the club we only created the 6x6 portion of the page. I then had this set up to show them how you can take a 6x6 scrapbook page and easily turn it in to an 8-1/2x11 or 12x12 page. Just to point out exactly what I'm talking about - and since I know you can't take a tape measure to the computer screen - the Baja Breeze (blue) square portion with the main larger picture is the 6x6 layout. Then the Certainly Celery (green) portion is the 8-1/2x11 layout. This is just one way to easily start small if you are unsure about scrapbooking, and as you get more comfortable with scrapbooking, you can always go back to your inital 6x6 pages and just add a few elements to make it one of the larger sizes.

Oh - and yes, the designer series paper on this is from Sale-a-Bration this year, so unfortunately it is no longer available; and the jumbo wheel I used is retired (I actually did not do that on purpose, I realized after I made the page that the wheel was retired), but since it is National Scrapbooking Month, I wanted to put more scrapbook pages out there. You can easily use other great designer series papers and wheels with this layout.

Supplies:
Define Your Life & It's a Loop Thing Stamp Sets
Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, and Close to Cocoa Classic Stampin' Pad
Certainly Celery and Brocade Blue Craft Stampin' Pad
Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, and Whisper White card stock
Baja Breeze and Basic Gray Textured card stock
Delicate Dots Designer Series Paper ('09 SAB - no longer available)
Certainly Celery Poly-twill Ribbon ('09 SAB - no longer available)
Linen Thread
Silver Brads
Clear Buttons
Ice Square Rhinestone Brads
On Board Timeless Type
Leaves a la Carte Jumbo Wheel (retired)
Jumbo Wheel handle
Wide Oval Punch
Key Tag Punch
Ticket Corner Punch
Heat Tool
Mat Pack & Paper Piercer
Stampin' Sponges
SNAIL
Sticky Strip
Stampin' Dimensionals
Mini Glue Dots

National Scrapbook Month

I'm so excited - I managed to post two days in a row! I'll try to keep this up for most of this week, but I make no promises!!!!

Tonight I'm going to combine National Scrapbooking Month (you know, I never remember if it is "scrapbook" or "scrapbooking" month - so I go back and forth) with Mother's Day. I had created this scrapbook page for my May club meeting, but we never got around to making it. You'll see the project we did later this week and you will understand why we didn't make it to the scrapbook page! Anyway - for those of you who look over and over the catalog like I do - you may recognize the layout. I CASEd it from page 4 of the current catalog. I love this picture and thought it perfect to use - it is the four generations of "Elaine"s. My grandmother, my mom, myself and my daughter all have Elaine in our names whether it be as a first or middle name.

A couple notes about the parts of the layout... for the "mom" at the top, I used craft ink to color some of our on-board letters. I had always been hesitant to do that because of how long it took to dry; but then I discovered the joy of using our heat tool to make that drying job so much quicker! You have got to try it! You can tell when the ink is dry - there is a slight color change. Also, I don't know if you can see it in the picture (sorry it is a little dark, and I promise it is a 8-1/2" x 8-1/2" square - I just had to take the photo at a slight angle in order to avoid the camera flash in the photo - and I still got a little bit)... anyway, I don't know if you can tell in the photo, but I also stamped the Lilly of the Valley stamp behind the Whisper White scrap; on the Going Gray card stock.

Supplies (don't forget - you can always order Stampin' Up! products at any time of the day or night from my web site; link is at the top left):

Ever After stamp set
Basic Gray, Always Artichoke, and Cameo Coral Classic Stampin' Pads
Cameo Coral Craft Stampin' Pad
Cameo Coral Stampin' Write Marker
Going Gray, Baja Breeze, and Whisper White card stock
Walk in the Park Designer Series Paper
1-1/4" Square Punch
Eyelet Border Punch
On Board Lots of Letters
Baja Breeze and Basic Gray Corduroy Buttons
Fresh Favorites II Colored Buttons
Baja Breeze 1" Double-Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon
Chocolate Chip Taffeta Ribbon
Linen Thread

It's Sale-A-Bration time!

I love this time of year! Sale-A-Bration give you an easy way to get even more free stamp sets and accessories! All you need to do is order $50 and you get a FREE Sale-a-Bration, limited offer, stamp set or accessory bundle. If you order $100, you get two; $150 and you get three; do you start seeing the trend? Plus, there are other great benefits if you host a workshop or join the Stampin' Up! team during Sale-A-Bration. Hostesses: host a workshop with $350 in total sales and get a FREE Sale-A-Bration set or bundle - that is in addition to any you earn with your personal order in the workshop. Join my team: get 15% off the starter kit, plus a free stamp set from the current Idea Book & Catalog (a $47.95 value). See below post for more details on joining my team.

To give you a peek at the fabulous products offered only during Sale-A-Bration, here is one of the projects I am doing for my February club meeting. I used both the Sale-A-Bration designer series paper bundle (Delicate Dots) and the Sale-A-Bration ribbon bundle for this 6x6 scrapbook page. I picked this size, because for my club members who are not scrapbookers, they can easily turn all the exact same supplies in to an adorable 3x6 card.

Supplies:
Define Your Life stamp set
Chocolate Chip Classic Ink
Baja Breeze textured, Whisper White and Pink Pirouette card stock
Delicate Dots DSP (Sale-A-Bration)
Certainly Celery ribbon (Sale-A-Bration Ribbon Bundle)
Key Tag punch
Wide Oval punch
Linen Thread
Silver Brads
Clear Buttons
Stampin' Sponge
Stampin' Dimensionals